The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1887-05-11
THE VENERABLE KAISER.
n Tow ofthc Incidents in a long life.
OF Adventure, Adversely ami
Prosperity.

DOfH Cno 2Zu uay OIL tnarCl, 1917,
Frederick William Louis Won IIoilen.
Zollern was from his cradle destined To
become n soldier, and when old enough
ne diligently applied himself to learn
tho military profession. 1T was on the
LIST Of January, 1907, when, crushed at
Jena, Prussia had almost ceased to ex-
list as m INDEPENDENT nation, that Fred
erick William III, who with his family
was living in the poorly furnished, half
ruined Castle OF Koenigsb,ug, gave his
third son, Wilhelm, then 10 years OF
age, the commission of Il subaltern in
tho Royal Grenadiers, with the remark.
VI give you this to-day in order that
you may have q new suit Of clothes to
wear on your next birthday
On the LIST OF January, 1914, .leyeni
years after his entry into the service,
N Mt The ago of II, he rode along side
Of Marshal Butcher when the prussian.
army crossed the Rhtno to invade fair
France. AT the battle of Bar-sur-Aube
where lo came under fire for the first
time, he was entrusted with the recon
n~oissance Of the battlefield, and he d,,l
this with so much GOODNESS That Ills
father gave him tho Iron Cross, Soon
after this he was transferred from the
Gronadiers to the Guards, and entered
with the allies into Paris, All enterprise
That he has since twice repeated. The
second time was in 1916, after the Bel
gian campaign, in which he took active
part, winning 4 majors commission at
Waterloo.
Deeply in love with the pr.nces:
Eliza RadZiwill, he consented. III 1870.
after but brief resistance, to n,arr,
Augusta, eldest daughter Of tie lGik,
OF Wcimar, and IN other politica, mat,
ters he has often sacrificed his personal
sympathics Or rcpugnanceS To Ci.e rx-
lgencics Of Statccraft. In The mean.
tlmc his promotion WAS rapid, in .uick
Succcssionllc became observation-disclosures,
colonel, general, commander OF Tho
First Division OF the Guards, conliMan-
der of the Third Army Corps, anu ,icu-
tcnant-gencral. Then, on the death OK
his father, when Ills cllildless brother
assembled 10 the throne he WAS an
nonnced as Crown PRINCE.
In 1857, just thirty years ago, tho
f(ticth anniversary Of his entrance into
the army was duly celebrated, but long
as has been his connection with the ser
vice he did not become tho Comman-
der-in-Chief until 1--WE months later.
Then the mental condition OF Frederick
William w forced Wilhelm to accept
tho Regency, and three years after
wards he was King Of Prussia. Those
three years were the turning point in
the military history Of Germany.
But there soon arose 4 serious cor
fict between the new king and the
Trussian Parliament. Wilhelm looked,
OH the army rs his personal property
and would not admit, that Parliament
had any right to even debate the ;,p-
preparations asked for to keep it ,s,.
The difference of opinion between The
KING aud his ministers Oh ibis SuDiet.
leo him, III 'ScIteml>pr, 1862. TO dismiss
ualn ard 70 intruAt bis C'oYernD3ci4H t,.
Cou1t v0lt Bismarck, Rl9iG llew prc,i
idNnto OF the tGonncli ilnd also farnieFlS
nelpngcd 80 tie llcderalot CONSERVATIVE
party; While 40 fltuNGoru ha5lad @traiitv
Cd 70 dislike Austria and Wine lt Nn!sa
he had seen through the aims ANA IN
bitions OF Louis Napoleon. IIo resolved
to turn those ambitions to the nlyant-
age of his sovereign and commcnccl lis
plans by getting the attention OF M
own people drawn away from lonr~
tic politics by centcriilg them on foyri2N
affairs. The conflict, however, tasted
four years and was exceedingly vic!ru,.
The end Of This struggle was tile .ynas
Victories we Denmark, Austria ami
France. The result OF tic war OF lSIu-
II is too well known for it o be ,,.cns-
S;,ry to dwell Oh it now. Suffice II 10
say that for the third time Wilhc!in c,.
tered Paris rs q conqueror; and wlr.
he rc-cntcred Berlin at the head OF il,,
army on the 10Th OF June, 1871, it wi.s
no longcras King Of Prussia, BIZ, As
Emperor Of United Germany. He he'll
that kings either received their autlluv-
ity from God or won it for theInSe,yr: d,
by victory, and it was as the %conunpiov
OF France that he himself consented IL.
receive the crown Of united Germans
in 1871, his coronation in the Palace ~
Versailles being %cquivalentto suci, a
ceremony on the battlefield.
There is never any change in the ~.
pearance Of the venerable mOnaich's
palace home. Ills slecping-rooms ana
Office ut the corner OF the building ,l,a1
stands in the Inter den Linden are lit
UP every cverning at the usual hour> AN&
even when the sovereign Is absent .lses+
windows are bright with lamps ;a,Ms
candles until midnight, just as tllougs
he were in the capital.
The imperial household is d ftuou
one, and few are the grand dim So
given. Both Wilhelm and his Empires.
love tho company Of their kind, lAM ,.1
turally they have very few iuli,nat.
friends. She is not fond OF All yG,ins.
but plain German cooking, but he lib.rs
French pllts we'll made aud sca5u lcl.
And 50 this wonderful man celebrates
his Goth anniversary as Il soldier III The
society OF his TWO great and intimate